Long before the Boston Red Sox reversed the curse, when I was in the 4th grade, I met my first television personality, Major Mudd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7bkXXvDLM . It was down at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, MA. He had a weekday morning cartoon show, including a serialized non-cartoon about two brothers traveling down a river and going back in time.